xxi, 265 pages ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references

pt. I. Macrocosm and microcosm. The universe: The wise book of philosophy and astronomy -- The Papal letter Unam Sanctum, 1302 -- "Englond his a wel god land ...," Robert of Gloucester, 1300 -- William Fitzstephen's description of London, 1180 -- pt. II. Abuses in the church and the world. "The revelation of Golias the bisshoppe" -- Curia, corruption, and council -- Statutory reform in England -- Plague, population, and the labor crisis -- The peasants' rebellion of 1381 -- On the times -- The Sloane satires -- Against the friars -- pt. III. The voice of the preacher and the heretic. Thomas Brinton, Sermon 44, Simul in unum, dives et pauper, 1377 -- The heretic -- pt. IV. Moral and micacle: the saint's life and the Exemplum -- Longinus and Veronica: the Legenda aurea -- Tales of saints, demons, and relics -- Nicolas Bozon, from Les contes moralisees -- pt. V. Instruction and action. Septenarium -- The Disticha catonis: Petyt Caton and Book I -- "How men that ben in hele sholde visite sike folk ..." -- Guild and fraternity -- The book of physiognomy -- pt. VI. Paysage moralisee. "In place as man may se ..." -- Moralisacio sacerdotis -- From Robert Grosseteste, The castle of love -- Guillaume de Deguilleville, Pilgrimage of the soul -- pt. VII. This is the way the world ends. "Wrecchednesses" -- "The pryk of conscience."

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